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Chandrayaan 2: Failure is part of the 'big game', shouldn't discourage the science community, says NASA-JPL CTO
Tech2 News Staff •The NASA JPL Chief emphasised a familiar statistic quotes at the time of Vikram's planned landing — 40% of moons missions in last 60 years have failed.
Asteroid 2019 VF1, 150 m in diameter, to fly really close to Earth today at 9.40 pm
Tech2 News Staff •The asteroid has been classified as a Near-Earth Object by NASA, but it will not hit Earth this time around.
NASA's Hubble catches a pair of Neptune's moons in a truly bizarre 'dance of avoidance'
Tech2 News Staff •Naiad and Thalassa are two of Neptune's innermost moons that exist pretty close to each other.
Three huge asteroids expected to fly past Earth, one closer than the Moon, on 24 July
Tech2 News Staff •2019 OD is expected to fly past Earth at a distance of 3,53,050 kilometres, which is closer to us than the Moon.
NASA's InSight Mars mission's six minutes of terror: Here's what we can expect
•InSight's landing sequence on Mars from start to finish is pre-programmed into an onboard computer.
NASA spots water in Jupiter's deepest clouds above the planet's Great Red Spot
Ians •Clouds & gas signatures found confirm that Jupiter is rich in oxygen & water, says NASA scientist
NASA's Curiosity Rover analyses Mars rocks after more than a year with improvised drilling method
•NASA's Curiosity rover is analysing drilled samples on Mars in one of its onboard labs for the first time in more than a year, the US space agency said. The rover drilled its last scheduled rock sample in October 2016.
Cassini spacecraft's 'Grand Finale' takes off with a Google Doodle
Tech2 News Staff •The Cassini spacecraft has just passed over Titan and thanks to the moon's gravity has changed its path in what would be its final manoeuvre.